Proverbs 26:9

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

“Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

“The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

Like the legs of the lame that hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”

“Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’

then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’ ” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.

He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”

When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits.

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.

The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as his wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

Job again took up his parable, and said,

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.

For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’ ”

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

If the foot would say, “Because I’m not the hand, I’m not part of the body,” it is not therefore not part of the body.

They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”